During the three hundred years of the Great Yong Dynasty, the five surnames and the Seven Hopes controlled the world, and the poor families had no place to stand.
Su Yi traveled thousands of miles from Bazhou to take the exam. The moment he stepped into Beijing, he entered the world's largest chess game.
Emperors and empresses are fighting, factions are fighting against each other, aristocratic families are marrying to control money and food, frontier armies are separatist and have heavy troops, and foreign barbarians are secretly stirring up trouble.
He first served the emperor, implemented the New Deal, fought against eunuchs, and suppressed aristocratic families. However, he was surrounded and suppressed by the old forces and faked his death to escape.
Later, he defected to the Western Chu State, bringing with him the scholars from poor families and the rebel army of refugees, using strategy instead of fighting and defeating the situation with wisdom.
Struggles for power in the court, espionage wars, food wars and salt wars, alliances and alliances...
A Jiuding chess game spanning thirteen states was decided by a man from a humble family.
